Noriyasu Soda and Carlo Guaita in Dialogue at Galleria Gentili, Florence

Galleria Gentili in Florence presents a two-person exhibition featuring Japanese artist Noriyasu Soda (born 1984 in Nagasaki) and Italian artist Carlo Guaita (born 1954 in Palermo). Soda's enameled canvases explore the 'fullness of emptiness,' while Guaita's black paint defines emptiness through absence. The minimalist, almost primitive use of color bridges two cultures, with the vast space between elements—celestial bodies and human bodies—seeming to close in an embrace. The exhibition achieves unity and harmony through the opposition of contraries, evoking the mature Goethe composing classical prose while sipping tea, far from the emotional assaults of Sturm und Drang. Critic Niccolò Lucarelli describes the effect as a cosmic grandeur arising from an improbable dialogue.